RTE's John Murray has won the Business Broadcast award at the first UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards. He won the award for The Business, the half-hour business magazine programme on RTE Radio 1.
The programme has been on air for three years and is produced by Ian Wilson.
RTE's Emma McNamara was also short-listed in the same category for her reports on Morning Ireland on the economic effects of the movement of large numbers of Polish building workers to Ireland.
Full list of winners:
Business News
Winner: Kathleen Barrington, Sunday Business Post
Shortlisted: Nick Webb, Sunday Independent and Aine Coffey, Sunday Times
Business Comment
Winner: Brian Carey, Sunday Times
Shortlisted: Ciaran Hancock, Irish Times and Arthur Beesley, Irish Times
Business Feature
Winner: Arthur Beesley, Irish Times
Shortlisted: Aine Coffey, Sunday Times and Mark Paul, Sunday Times
Business Technology
Winner: Adrian Weckler, Sunday Business Post
Shortlisted: John Kennedy, Silicon Republic
Business Broadcast
Winner: John Murray, RTE Radio One, The Business
Shortlisted: Emma McNamara, RTE and Diarmaid Fleming, BBC Dublin
Specialist Business Reporting (marketing, personal finance and recruitment)
Winner: Niall Brady, Sunday Times
Shortlisted: Bill Tyson, Sunday Tribune and Laura Slattery, Irish Times
Young Journalist of the Year
Winner: Mark Paul, Sunday Times
Shortlisted: Ian Kehoe, Sunday Business Post and Laura Noonan, Irish Independent
Regional Business Reporting
Winner: Alison Donnelly, Evening Echo
